And while the Labour leadership has made humane statements on the closure of the worst of Britain's detention centres, and against the worst of May's excesses, they too have remained too timid in the face of the storm of hate whipped up by the government and tabloids in grim partnership.
American Humane wrote a statement saying that although the trainer in the first part of the leaked footage could have been gentler with the dog, the dog was not forced to complete the scene, as the footage suggests.
Archbishop Ieronymos, a more sympathetic and less verbose figure than some of his recent predecessors, addressed [in Greek] the issue in a newspaper column yesterday, using a tone that was pretty humane, as church statements on the matter go.
Secretary Vilsack has made strong statements about humane slaughter enforcement and taken swift action to suspend operations at Bushway.
The United States coordinated with the Government of the United Arab Emirates to ensure these transfers took place consistent with appropriate security and humane treatment measures," DOD said in a statement.
"ICE remains committed to ensuring all individuals in our custody are held and treated in a safe, secure and humane manner," the spokesman said in a statement.
"He stood for the humane and the decent," Abbott said in a statement.
The World Organization for Animal Health, based in Paris, issued a separate statement late Thursday in which it endorsed humane culls at infected farms but also said a supplemental policy "could be to apply a suitably adapted vaccination policy of limited duration".
In a statement, Mr. Perdue defended the proposal as humane and cost effective, saying his plan offered the "same level of food value" provided by the SNAP program, which replaced the food stamp program in the late 1990s.
